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Thursday, July 13, 2017

Globaloney and Glaciers

The seas will rise, perhaps covering Los Angeles, New York, and D.C. (Stop sniggling and hoping! THIS IS SERIOUS!!)

Or not.

As it turns out, this is not the first really big chunk of ice to depart the South Pole.

...The new Larsen berg is probably in the top 10 biggest ever recorded.

The
largest observed in the satellite era was an object called B-15. It
came away from the Ross Ice Shelf in 2000 and measured some 11,000 sq
km. Six years later, fragments of this super-berg still persisted and
passed by New Zealand.

In 1956, it was reported that a US Navy
icebreaker had encountered an object of roughly 32,000 sq km. That is
bigger than Belgium. Unfortunately, there were no satellites at the time
to follow up and verify the observation.

It has been known also
for the Larsen C Ice Shelf itself to spawn bigger bergs. An object
measuring some 9,000 sq km came away in 1986. Many of Larsen's progeny
can get wound up in a gyre in the Weddell sea or can be despatched north
on currents into the Southern Ocean, and even into the South Atlantic....

1956?? NINETEEN FIFTY-SIX??

That was during Global Cooling. Or was it 1986 that was Cooling? We know that 2000 was Warming. And of course, this year is Doing Nothing For the Time Being.